Gnuplot how to lower the number of tics in x axis

Question

The figure has too many xtics and ytics. Can I have half of them?

I know I can manually set tics in a way similar to this:

set xtics (1,2,4,8,16,32,6         


        

Answer 1

There are different ways to set the number of tics depending on what exactly you want to do. For a fixed segment of length 2, starting at zero and ending at 32:

set xrange [0:32]
set xtics 0,2,32
plot sin(x)

If you want an exponential increment, try the following

set xrange [0:32]
set for [i=0:5] xtics (0,2**i)
plot sin(x)

Or you can use a logarithmic scale (in base 2 in this case):

set xrange [1:32]
set logscale x 2
plot sin(x)